Update: website is online at temporary location googleboard.com.
Alright, I just got off a 21:13 minute phone call with GoDaddy support. The domain was accidentally charged back, and thus the receipt was canceled and the domain was removed from my account. This was a mistake. I decided to pay the $50 chargeback fee and the $30 domain recovery fee to ensure that the domain is returned as soon as possible. I really hope this works.
It will take up to 2 days for the domain to be returned to my account (this Saturday/Sunday). After that, I may have to set the nameservers back to mine.
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Ah, so that’s what happened.
Thanks for putting this up. It’s good to have an answer for the multitude of confused members wandering about today that I’ve been bumping into. -
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Thanks for letting us know about it. Really hoping it’ll be back online as soon as possible… >_
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I feel better now that I know this. Thanks!
Can’t wait until GC is back up and running again. -
i hope u get domain back.
waiting to surf on GC.com.
best luck !!!!!!
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I thought maybe it was a propergation problem….. Knew you weren’t gone for good….. Hope it all works out and I’m sure it will…. Thanks for letting us all know what happened….
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push up
hope everything just like before
we need the GC.com
Thanks
3forever.com
3forever.net
richgenius.com
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Great the googleboard.com url works now!
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Hi Elliot
if you need some help, let me know, i have very good realtions to godaddy as i am long year custumer there with own servers pp.
Good luck
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GoDaddy Screws everything up, I have multiple domains from them, their support is useless and they act like they could care less…
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Hey, I see you have the all-members notification out. Cool.
Thanks for the reassurance, and for taking the time to smooth out this bump in the road. -
how does an allegedly professional admin let such a monumentally disruptive thing happen over such petty sums? and investors are supposed to trust a brand that puts such ineptitude in charge of it’s global community building portal? GOOG to $600? that’s just bait for the suckers because the click fraud and other problems are going to come to light in ‘06 … GOOG goes below $200 by ‘08. smart money is selling in increments, beginning right now. remember, you were warned here, first, so hold at your own irrationally exhuberant risk.
now, how much do you want to bet that bearers of bad news are CENSORED and this message doesn’t last more than an hour?
Google’s real mantra: Don’t be evil, fascism will do.
fas·cism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent [brandism,] nationalism, [corporatism,] and racism. -
Yeah hope the site’s back up soon!
Thanks for the notification saying whats happening! -
Godaddy’s service is pretty crappy..
Domain recovery fee?
I agree it was a pretty lame thing to happy to such a large company.Why not just paid for the domain for the next 50 years…
KM
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